[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Sudhir Anand]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Richard Hillesley
> Sent: 10 December 2002 13:31
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] OT(ish): Advice
> 
> 
<snip>
> and here's betting that VB.net 2 and c# 2 will be totally new 
> languages too
> (It has taken at least 7 iterations to get to where "VB 
> should have been at 
> the start" - maybe VB should have been C++ from the start, 
> and C# should have
> been Java,  and maybe  then interoperability would not be an issue. 
> 

AGREED

> > Microsoft are "betting the ranch" on these technologies
> > and, as the Office suits have stabilised in file format and
> > inter-operability, I believe that Microsoft have reached a similar
> > point with their development environments now - you're 
> unlikely to find
> > huge changes leading to incompatibilities anymore.
> 
> "stabilised in file format and inter-operability" ? Really?
> My feeling is that, If you want to learn about ptogramming, 
> it is better to go 
> the whole hog and learn how to program without visual 
> programming tools - it 
> will give you a much broader education in programming, and qualify you
> for a much wider range of jobs, on a wider range of 
> platforms, and you won't 
> have to spend vast sums of money on the visual tools to start you off.
> (I also think that .NET is going to be another lock-in 
> lock-out mechanism for 
> defeating interoperability - especially on the net).   
> 

Agreed.

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